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Sir Emyr Jones Parry has been the President of the University of Aberystwyth, located in Wales since 2008. Sir Parry serves as the Chairman of the All Wales Convention, a body established by the Welsh Assembly Government to review Wales's constitutional arrangements, since 2007, Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Open University Business School since 2008, Chairman of Redress, a human rights organization, and Chairman of the Corporate and Social Responsibility External ... Advisory Group of First Group plc, a transport operator, since 2008. Sir Parry has been Chairman of Wales Millennium Centre since September 2010. He has been an Independent Director at Weatherford International plc since June 2010. Sir Parry served as UK Permanent Representative to the UN from 2003 to 2007 and UK Ambassador to NATO from 2001 to 2003, after specializing in European Union affairs including energy policy. Sir Parry received a B.S. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cardiff and a Ph.D in Polymer Physics from the University of Cambridge.

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